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Linkfest:October 08,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Sivasankaran accused of global land grab (Mint)

Its up,up and away for IT stocks (FE)

How Rohit Nandan is reviving Air India (BS)

Why Amazon is the biggest winner from Flipkart’s debacle (FirstBiz)

The concept of dividend stripping (CapitalMind)

Real Estate investing offers only one outcome-a low return (NYTimes)

International Stock Market Diversification (CommonSense)

Targeting liquidity as an investment style (Swedroe)

Venture Capital and the great big Silicon Valley asshole game (Pando)

6 surprises that greets a Pakistani in India (Dawn)

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Linkfest:October 07,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Despite IPO boom,no party for investment bankers (BL)

Cost of power generation likely to increase by 30% (ET)

NSEL investors want ED to attach all assets of FTIL (FE)

AIA Engineering-The choice of ace stock pickers (RJ)

We are all charlatans (PragCap)

Gross shows risk of star culture (Reuters)

Indians are buying homes in the US (NYTimes)

Paul Graham:Bad startup founders are like old people (VBounded)

Triple your money with pre-IPO investing (DailyReckoning)

How do you know if your fund manager has ‘lost it’ ? (MarketWatch)

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Linkfest:Oct 06,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Nothing grows forever,including the stock market (Bloomberg)

Iron rules of money (MotleyFool)

IPOs set to pick up pace in second half of FY2015 (FE)

Festivals should not be an excuse to invest in gold (Mint)

How we get conned with life insurance products (Subramoney)

Why you should ignore mutual fund star ratings (FreeFinCal)

How to read an annual report (Janav)

Bill Gross’s next act (Barrons)

You’ll never believe how low the price of oil can go (DailyReckoning)

Asset Class cycles and some thumb rules (WiseWealth)

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Weekend Mega Linkfest: October 03,2014

Wishing all readers a very Happy Dassera.

Some off beat reads for the long weekend:

The Elon Musk interview about Mars (Aeon)

The American myth about the self made man (Slate)

Who killed Bugsy Siegel, the creator of Las Vegas? (LAMag)

Vassilis Paleokostas: The Uncatchable (BBC)

Facebook Wall:Reactions to Modi’s Clean India Campaign (UnrealTimes)

Travelogue: Driving in the Scottish Highlands (TeamBHP)

Jackfruit is on its way to become a global star (Open)

India’s gherkin exports are booming (Caravan)

L&T: Armed but not commissioned (ForbesIndia)

Beheadings as terror marketing (Atlantic)

The importance of friendship diversity (NYMag)

Narendra Modi frees Gandhi and Shastri from the Congress (FirstPost)

7 Simple Ways to find original ideas (BI)

Cheetahs spend 90% of their days sitting around (Smithsonian)

What turned Warren Buffett into a car guy? (BusinessWeek)

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Linkfest:October 02,2014

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

Modi enlists Indian CEOs to build toilets,sweep streets (Bloomberg)

Why would it cost an average Mumbaikar 34 years of income to buy a home in Mumbai (FirstPost)

20 stocks to play upturn in economy:Morgan Stanley (MoneyControl)

Is the IIM charm fading? (Mint)

Estate planning is key to avoiding family conflicts (FE)

The story of Horlicks (BS)

Bill Gross’s investing secret (BusinessWeek)

Ello:The world’s fastest growing social network (Recode)

Why oil is crashing (BI)

Bapu in Beliaghata (Hindu)